Hi Folks I'm trying to think who it was that brought this up a few weeks ago at a Friday Coffee Morning and have a feeling it was @Mark Petersen . The person was sounding out if any of us liked the idea of collaborating on e-zines or similar for free for members on here. Each zine to have Proactive design principles & techniques for the GMs & players. I remember @Jonah Fishel advising that a proposal for this be posted so we all know what we're working towards. Also, @Jonah Fishel or @Tristan Fishel , if we were to do this, can you suggest particular a template in either of your books? Or pages/chapters from your books if we need to be reading more to get the job done. I know we tentatively settled on 5.5e for this as its the most common system. I saw something cool recently in a daggerheart product I backed on Kickstarter where adversary statblocks had columns per tier of play under each action with appropriately scaled attacks and damage. That way each monster could be easily used at any level of play. I think that would be a good way to go (I know it was an adaptation from one of their 5e publications, just can't remember who it was but I've the free 1 click preview I could screenshot a page if someone needs an example of what I mean.) A useful reference scaling monsters for tiers this way is The Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document which I always keep handy when running a game. That way I can throw whatever I want at players on the fly and call it what I want. (just be sure to quote the bit at the top of its page if using this Monster Builder)

I have a party that thinks, when they run low on spell slots and hit points, they can just take a long rest anywhere -- the middle of a corridor, bridge, hallway -- you know, high-traffic areas -- and they are back to 100%. I constantly give them random encounters, which do tend to happen in hallways, but they just keep trying until everyone gets bored and I just say, "the night passes with out incident". I need to find someway to give them consequences, but also give them some mechanism to where they can take a long rest that makes sense. I'm open to any ideas. Thank you.

Good news and bad news! The bad news is, Happy Hour Wednesday will be going on hiatus for a bit---I've shifted my work schedule around and I'll have to stop running on Wednesdays. I've made a community poll to see what other times might work here! Since we have Coffee Hour with Jonah, I may hold off on this for now and just making that, but we'll see! If you can't make coffee hour but want to join the chats, definitely let me know and I'll try to prioritize getting this back up sooner. To soften the blow, there are new prep videos in the classroom! We're trying to show proactive prep more in action, so if you want to check them out, you can find some concrete examples in the classroom or at this link: https://www.skool.com/game-masters-laboratory/classroom/b10da8af?md=23cd1876a2ae43f9b5e571db4ba8d69a

Those of you in the Friday morning chat would have heard me talking about the giant battle arena I'm printing. I'm about half way though and this is how it's looking. When it's done it should be about 22" in diameter. For comparison I also posted pictures of the largest I could print it on one plate.

Edit: session will be Wednesday the 16th and I have two slots left as of posting. Hey everyone! I am going to be running the new Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG the week of September the 14th. I've got three slots I'm asking for votes of from interested players. Monday the 14th, Wednesday the 16th, or Saturday the 19th. Each of these times would be at 6pm Central time. I use a ralley poll to collect the votes/emails to send a full invite once a time is selected. Going to be running this on my discord and will require Camera and Microphone. Always love running games for this community!